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Breakout Session: Understanding Stereotypes Will Make You a Better Leader
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A strong link exists between leadership and diversity. Leadership is about empowering people, bringing out the best in others. Effective leaders bring out the best in people by making them feel accepted, respected, and connected. When people feel good about themselves and the organization, they perform better individually and as part of a team, resulting in an organization that performs better. These are the same objectives and desired results of diversity. Effective leadership empowers each individual regardless of race, sex, or religion and inspires the desire and the ability to work together toward a common goal. One of the important aspects of diversity leadership is the topic of stereotypes. As future leaders, it is important to be able to recognize your use of stereotypes but more importantly, to recognize the use of stereotypes by individuals and society. The need for speed in our society causes stereotypes. Stereotypes often contain a "kernel of truth": they are rooted in true differences between groups. Because stereotypes focus on differences, they cause belief distortions, particularly when groups are similar. Stereotypes are also context-dependent: beliefs about a group depend on the characteristics of the reference group. In line with our predictions, beliefs about abstract groups and political groups are context-dependent and distorted in the direction of representative types.
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Lisa Diehl
Faculty
University of North Georgia
Lisa Phillips Diehl (Champney), a 1982 cum laude graduate of the university of Tampa with a Bachelor of Arts in English and a minor in writing, has been awarded the non-tenured “Teaching Excellence” award from the University of North Georgia for 2019. Ms. Diehl has taught English composition and British Literature II for over 7 years at the university. She was recently promoted to Senior Lecturer at UNG. Diehl earned a Master of Arts degree in Teaching, with a specialization in Secondary English and ESOL. She graduated with a 4.0 GPA. Diehl has also received the Gabriele Stauf Residency Award, Summer 2019, by Piedmont College which offers the recipient a two-week residency at the Lillian E. Smith Center (LES Center) by Piedmont College for her research and work with composition studies, specifically with embedded tutoring, and her focus on social justice, which aligns with the initiatives of the award and the work of the Lillian E. Smith Center. In 2018, she was awarded the Governors Teaching Fellows fellowship, which offers a two-week summer symposium at the University of Georgia. She was one of 15 state recipients awarded in the state of Georgia for the summer symposium in 2018 and she was nominated by the University of North Georgia president, Bonita Jacobs. In 2018 she was awarded a “LEAP into Action” Grant, 2018 for her enhancement of the English Composition II course on Social Justice, “English Composition II: Reading and Writing for Social Justice: Rising Up! Imagining a Different Kind of Society.”